The General Assembly of Prosecutors started in August will continue on December 22. A decision to this effect was taken by the Superior Council of Prosecutors (SCP), IPN reports.

The General Assembly of Prosecutors is to return to the elections to the Superior Council of Prosecutors.

In August, the General Assembly of Prosecutors was convoked after approximately three years of the last meeting. During the pandemic, the prosecutors could not come together owing to the restrictions. Later, they waited for the initiation of a mechanism for assessing the integrity of all the candidates for member of the SCP.

The prosecutors were to elect their representatives on the SCP. But the General Assembly of Prosecutors was put off by over 250 votes in favor, at the suggestion of three prosecutors - Cristina Gladcov, Vitalie Codreanu and Anatolie Gîrbu – who failed to pass the pre-vetting, but were waiting for the results of the reassessment ordered by the Supreme Court of Justice.

On December 11, the Pre-Vetting Commission announced that Cristina Gladcov, Vitalie Codreanu and Anatolie Gîrbu failed the rerun assessment.

Even so, the agenda of the SCP’s December 12 meeting included the requests by the three prosecutors to be put on the list of candidates for member of the SCP on behalf of prosecutors.

Being a self-managing body of the prosecutors, the SCP has wide powers, from the appointment of prosecutors to the election or dismissal of the prosecutor general. The new composition of the SCP is to also elect the head of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases. This post fell vacant in the autumn of 2021.